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The Subversion client (svn) is installed on hosting.com servers, so you can check out, update and commit against a repository from your account over SSH.
We do not host Subversion repositories. The client is available; the server is not. This applies to web hosting, reseller hosting, managed VPS and managed dedicated servers.If you need somewhere to host a repository, use a hosted service, or an unmanaged server where you have root and can install one yourself.

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What you can do

Use the client on your account to work against a repository that lives somewhere else:
This is the common case for deploying a site from an existing SVN repository, and it works on every product.
Most new projects use Git rather than Subversion, and Git is fully supported including repositories on your own account. If you are choosing rather than inheriting, start there.

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On an unmanaged server

An unmanaged VPS or dedicated server is yours to configure. You have root, so you can install and run svnserve, or serve repositories over HTTP with Apache’s mod_dav_svn, in exactly the way you would on any server you own. This is not supported by us — we will not configure it, troubleshoot it or back up the repository data — but nothing stops you doing it.

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Connecting to a server that uses a non-standard SSH port

Some servers use port 7822 for SSH rather than the default 22. Rather than passing the port every time, define a tunnel in your local Subversion config:
  1. On your own computer, open ~/.subversion/config in a text editor.
  2. Find the [tunnels] section and add:
  3. Save the file.
You can then use svn+altport:// in place of svn+ssh://:

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